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In this title, informative text describes the mating rituals of gibbons, wolves, swans and beavers, amongst others. An ideal Valentine's Day gift for that special person in your life, "Mates for Life" is an affectionate and amusing look at our...

Scorpions of Southern Africa, the go-to guide for identifying southern Africa's rich scorpion fauna, has now been freshly designed, updated and expanded. It includes 12additional species, new images and distribution maps, and a chapter on how to go about...

Cat traces the relationship between humans and the cat from its original domestication in ancient Egypt c. 2000 BC, through the centuries as a utilitarian rodent catcher, its gradual acceptance as a charming and amiable pet, and its present status as a...

In myths and legends, squids are portrayed as fearsome sea-monsters, lurking in the watery deeps waiting to devour humans. Even as modern science has tried to turn those monsters of the deep into unremarkable calamari, squids continue to dominate the...

"Elephant Reflections" brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illuminate one of nature's greatest and most original works of art: the elephant. The photographs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588346476Author Marianne TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1304gDimensions(mm) 247mm *...

In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes-creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911525738Author Professor Caroline ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Clink Street PublishingPublisher Clink Street PublishingWeight(grams)...

This landmark photographic encyclopedia of the animal kingdom is revised with new species, images, and the latest scientific knowledge on all things animal!DK's Animal features stunning wildlife photography of more than 2,000 of the world's most...

Concise descriptions of the animals and their tracks are combined with detailed drawings of the front and back prints, stride patterns and other important identifying aspects. Each animal is captured in accurate black-and-white illustrations, including...

The Secret Lives of Animals is the perfect mix of field guide know-how and armchair entertainment. In addition to the standard field guide notes and range maps, the meat of the book will offer up "spark moments" in nature-something fascinating or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908898692Author Paul MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Neetah BooksPublisher Neetah BooksWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908898678Author Paul MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Neetah BooksPublisher Neetah BooksWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 9mm

Bivalve mollusks are roughly hand-sized animals that can aggregate into large groups of millions of individuals as reefs-pumping and filtering enough water in short periods of time to control the processes on the reef and adjacent tidal waters-and serve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811722407Author Louise B. ForrestFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole BooksWeight(grams) 255g

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"Stallions: Their Management and Handling" is of fundamental interest to all breeders of horses and ponies. This wide-sweeping yet meticulously detailed work considers the many aspects of the management and handling of all types of serving entires, from...

This book presents thirty-one extinct species through personal portraits. The intimate approach not only highlights each species but explores the broader implications of losing a species forever. How do we honour such a loss? Can we grieve for species...

Blending travelogue and philosophical reflection, Van Horn embarks on a quest for a new urban land ethic that reveals how urban animals can expand how we care for and understand place. A hiking trail through majestic mountains. A raw, unpeopled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674424524Author Martin LindauerFormat HardbackPage Count 171Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams)...

Incredible true tales from a world-renowned safari guide and celebrated author Romantic notions aside, being a safari guide isn't always particularly enjoyable or glamorous. Quite often it is beset with challenges, like having to spend a night in a...

Matt Jackson-Smith is a new generation Yorkshire vet; a dashing James Herriot for the modern age. From watching TV show The Yorkshire Vet with his gran, to being one of its most popular stars, Matt is forging an exciting life and career both on and ...

Concise descriptions of the animals and their tracks are combined with detailed drawings of the front and back prints, stride patterns and other important identifying aspects. Each animal is captured in accurate black-and-white illustrations, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647403768Author Jasper MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint Syrawood Publishing HousePublisher Syrawood Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 866g

This book examines the current literature and knowledge on the evolution and ecology of all the birds named as eagles, with particular emphasis on the larger species. It also examines the past and current relations between eagles and people, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641168137Author Dominic RossFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641167734Author Jasper MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 875gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Recognized today as one of America's best zoos, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden has become one of Columbia, South Carolina's most popular tourist destinations and one of the most visited zoos in the southeastern United States. Riverbanks celebrates its...

Your Quick Guide to Identifying Mammal Tracks From the backyard to the backwoods, keep this tabbed booklet close at hand. Based on Jonathan Poppele's popular field guide and featuring only Midwest mammals, the booklet is organized by group for quick and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415732099Author Laurel BraitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint UranoPublisher UranoWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 145mm * 30mm

When it comes to animals and nature, there is no end to our curiosity. Around ten thousand questions a year land on Lars-Ake Janzon's desk at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. In this sequel to the successful book How Long Can a Fly Fly?, Janzon...

"Words are our tools, and, as a minimum, we should use clean tools. We should know what we mean and what we do not, and we must forearm ourselves against the traps that language sets us." -- The Need for Precise Terminology, Austin (1957, 7-8) It follows...

Honey bees are social insects; they live together in large, well-organized family groups comprising three castes: queen (fertile female), workers (sterile females) and drones (males). During honey flow season, there is a considerable increase in the...

With over 40,000 described species, spiders have adapted to nearly every terrestrial environment across the globe. Over half of the world's spider families live within the three contiguous Pacific Coast states--not surprising considering the wide variety...

"Eating Apes" is an eloquent book about a disturbing secret: the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. Dale Peterson's impassioned expose details how, with the unprecedented...

Lucinda Cole's Imperfect Creatures offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of "vermin" as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political imagination. In the space between...

John Berger famously said that "in the last two centuries, animals have gradually disappeared." Those who share his view contend that animals have been removed from our daily lives and that we have been removed from the daily lives of animals. This has...

"Big, Bad Book of Beasts: The World's Most Curious Creatures".About the AuthorMichael Largo is the author of The Big, Bad Book of Beasts; God's Lunatics; Genius and Heroin; and the Bram Stoker Award-winning Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of...

Linda Hunter was terrified of bears, but she yearned for the solitude of the wilderness. Setting aside her fears, she became an expert tracker and guide and grew to miss the company of the very animals that once kept her from her love of the outdoors. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490721217Author PK DickmeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 106gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...